Ah, yes, it is.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1998947
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/2017401
The system knows when a reboot is required in those fraction of cases
when it is despite having livepatch enabled.
A message dialogue
I have this issue on one 22.04 server. Several other 22.04 servers are
completely fine.
On the one where it isn't, auditd confirms the file is simply never
created during the update process.
update-notifier-common is installed on all of them.
Looking to see what the differences between the